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Parish Life – Our Weekly Blog

History, Memory, and Grace

By Kathy Pfeiffer

Late last summer, when my family gathered to celebrate my father’s 90th birthday, our talk quickly moved into recollections of the past. Who remembers the blizzard of 1978 when we lost power for so long that mom

Lenten Devotional Week 5 : Freedom from Death

Week 5: Freedom From Death

In this final week, we explore how Jesus meets us in the very heart of our humanity — in our flesh, our friendships, our grief, and even our death. In John’s Gospel, the

Lenten Devotional Week 4: Freedom From Blindness

This is the fourth in our series of Lenten reflections designed to help you go deeper this season using the Sunday sermon, the Gospel reading, and our 5 Weeks of Freedom small‑group study.

Lenten Devotional Week 3: Freedom From Shame

This is the third in our series of Lenten reflections designed to help you go deeper this season using the Sunday sermon, the Gospel reading, and our 5 Weeks of Freedom small‑group study.

Lenten Devotional Week 2: Freedom From Our Stories

Week 2: Freedom From Our Stories

Welcome to the second in our series of Lenten reflections designed to help you go deeper this season using the Sunday sermon, the Gospel reading, and our 5 Weeks of

Lenten Devotional Week 1: Freedom in our Identity

Week 1: Identity over “Ifs”

Welcome to the first in a series of blogs to help you go deeper this lent using the the Sunday Sermon, readings and our “5 Weeks of Freedom” small groups discussion guide so

Pastoral Care: What it is and how to access our ministries of care

By The Rev. Dr. Bill Carroll

Like our other ministries here at Christ Church Cranbrook, our pastoral care ministries are inspired by the teaching and example of Jesus.  If you read the Gospels, you will notice

Ashes to Go! Sacred Space on Street Corners

By: Father Chris Harris

Ash Wednesday calls us to reflect on our mortality, to look honestly at our lives—both what we’ve done and what we’ve left undone—and to renew our commitment to God’s path of love. But what if we

Fresco Restoration Week Three Update

By: Deborah Odette

As of today, Tuesday, the surface cleaning of the fresco is complete! Members of the restoration team report that the cleaning work proceeded very smoothly. In a few places, squares of uncleaned surface have been left to

Comments from the Outgoing Senior Warden

By: Marla Carew

In 1979, the great poet, soon to be great Christian poet, Denise Levertov sat down to write an agnostic mass. She grew up with an Anglican priest father and so knew how a liturgy worked,